Revelation 11:15-19: The Seventh Trumpet
Revelation - The Lamb is Victorious • Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 8 viewsNotes
Transcript
Handout
Sermon Tone Analysis
A
D
F
J
S
Emotion
A
C
T
Language
O
C
E
A
E
Social
Introduction
Introduction
Scripture
Scripture
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying,
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
and begun to reign.
18 The nations raged,
but your wrath came,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
and those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
Outline
Outline
Revelation 1 - Introduction
Revelation 1 - Introduction
Revelation 1:1-3 - Prologue & Benediction
Revelation 1:4-8 - Epistolary Introduction
Revelation 1:9-20 - A Vision of the Son of Man
Revelation 2-3 - The Seven Churches
Revelation 2-3 - The Seven Churches
Revelation 2:1-7 - The Letter to Ephesus
Revelation 2:8-11 - The Letter to Smyrna
Revelation 2:12-17 - The Letter to Pergamum
Revelation 2:18-29 - The Letter to Thyatira
Revelation 3:1-6 - The Letter to Sardis
Revelation 3:7-13 - The Letter to Philadelphia
Revelation 3:14-22 - The Letter to Laodicea
Revelation 4-5 - The Throne Room
Revelation 4-5 - The Throne Room
Revelation 4:1-11 - A Vision of the Throne Room
Revelation 5:1-14 - The Lamb is Worthy
Revelation 6-8:1 - The Seven Seals
Revelation 6-8:1 - The Seven Seals
Revelation 6:1-8 - The First Four Seals
Revelation 6:9-17 - The Fifth and Sixth Seals
Revelation 7:1-17 - Who can Stand on the Day of the Lord?
Revelation 8:1-5 - Anticipation of Further Judgment
Revelation 8:6-11:19 - The Seven Trumpets
Revelation 8:6-11:19 - The Seven Trumpets
Revelation 8:6-13 - The First Four Trumpets
Revelation 9:1-21 - The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets
Revelation 10:1-11 - The End is Near
Revelation 11:1-14 - The Two Witnesses
Revelation 11:15-19 - The Seventh Trumpet
Revelation 11:15 - Kingdom Come
Revelation 11:16-18 - Worship of the Twenty-four Elders
Revelation 11:19 - God’s Presence
Purpose of Book
Purpose of Book
The purpose of Revelation is to challenge/encourage believers, who are expectantly awaiting the reign of Christ, to live faithfully for Him despite worldly circumstances, persecution, and the cosmic battle between God and Satan.
The purpose of Revelation is to challenge/encourage believers, who are expectantly awaiting the reign of Christ, to live faithfully for Him despite worldly circumstances, persecution, and the cosmic battle between God and Satan.
Main Point
Main Point
The end of history has arrived. Final judgment has been given. Those in Christ are saved and rewarded by gaining access to New Creation where they fellowship with God, but those who rebel are given righteous judgment.
The end of history has arrived. Final judgment has been given. Those in Christ are saved and rewarded by gaining access to New Creation where they fellowship with God, but those who rebel are given righteous judgment.
Recapitulation - Seals
Recapitulation - Seals
13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” 14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
the sun shall not strike them,
nor any scorching heat.
17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of living water,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Revelation 11:15 - Kingdom Come
Revelation 11:15 - Kingdom Come
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
Seventh angel blew his trumpet
The final trumpet is blown
History is coming to an end as final judgment concludes and new creation is initiated - SEVEN
Compare to Revelation 6 and the seventh seal
There were loud voices in heaven, saying
Loud voices is the third woe being pronounced - the final judgment
All heavenly beings anxiously await the fullness of the kingdom on earth
The kingdom on earth is established as promised/seen in the Old Testament
21 Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule Mount Esau,
and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ
44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
14 And to him was given dominion
and glory and a kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
that shall not be destroyed.
4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
He shall reign forever and ever
1 The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble!
He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
Revelation 11:16-18 - Worship of the Twenty-four Elders
Revelation 11:16-18 - Worship of the Twenty-four Elders
16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying,
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
and begun to reign.
18 The nations raged,
but your wrath came,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
and those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
Twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God
Sum of the 12 patriarchal leaders and 12 apostles symbolizing all of priesthood of believers
9 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Here their worship is driven because Christ’s reign has begun
Saying, we give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty
Why are they thanking God? The nations have been destroyed, God’s judgment/vengeance has been issued, and He’s rescued those who are in Him
Lord God Almighty is the equivalent to the Lord of Hosts in the Old Testament - He is the divine warrior who rescues His people
Who is and who was
4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!”
Notice the difference? There is no “is to come” because He has now arrived
For you have taken your great power and begun to reign
All Christ’s enemies are conquered
A vision revealing the day when God’s rule is entirely unchallenged by his enemies
18 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
18 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
1 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
The nations raged, but your wrath came
The response by God to the defiant nations is His divine and perfect wrath pour out on them
The eschatological moment of the Day of the Lord has finally arrived
And the time for the dead to be judged and rewarding your servants, the prophets and the saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great
6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For God shows no partiality.
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
Those not in Christ will face the judgment of their works, but those in Christ - though still judged according to their works - are saved because of Christ
Eschatological judgment is given to those who are rebellious
Eschatological rewards are given to those in Christ
For the destroying the destroyers of the earth
Those who are a part of the Babylonian/earthly kingdom
The beast, the false prophet and Satan himself
Revelation 11:19 - God’s Presence
Revelation 11:19 - God’s Presence
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple.
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple.
***Not Literal temple/ark***
***Not Literal temple/ark***
8 By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing 9 (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 10 but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
22 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
16 And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the Lord, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again.
God’s temple in heaven was opened
The ark of his covenant was seen within his temple
There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
God’s presence has arrived, judgment has been fully issued
Main Point
Main Point
The end of history has arrived. Final judgment has been given. Those in Christ are saved and rewarded by gaining access to New Creation where they fellowship with God, but those who rebel are given righteous judgment.
The end of history has arrived. Final judgment has been given. Those in Christ are saved and rewarded by gaining access to New Creation where they fellowship with God, but those who rebel are given righteous judgment.